This Working Paper outlines claims about the "future of work" (as the shorthand for work and employment) and the policy responses to those claims. It is based on a review of the academic and grey literatures on digitalisation and the future of work. The paper first explains the two main...

Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. HOW GLOBALIZED IS LABOR? -- III. HOW HAS THE GLOBALIZATION OF LABOR AFFECTED WORKERS IN ADVANCED ECONOMIES -- IV. LABOR SHARE AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF LABOR: AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION -- V. THE STORY BEHIND THE DECLINE OF THE LABOR SHARE -- VI. LABOR...